Meet the 52 Faculty Named as Affiliates of the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University
Fifty-two professors from nine different Harvard schools and departments have accepted a two-year faculty affiliation at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. The Center is proud to support their work, create opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration, and facilitate exchanges between academia and practice.
The Center works to advance public management, leadership, and governance in cities through research, teaching, and other activities. This inaugural group of faculty affiliates has been selected based on the relevance of their work to people leading and studying cities around the world.
About the Faculty Affiliates
Eight professors are residential faculty with labs and research teams located in the Center, at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Along with the other affiliate faculty, they represent a wide range of disciplinary fields, including public and non-profit management, law, sociology, behavioral science, economics, political science, psychology, urban planning and design, public health, and more. Faculty affiliates join the thriving community of residential faculty, fellows, staff, and students at the Center to forge multidisciplinary connections, generate dialogue and community, publish and share research and knowledge, and advance research-backed innovation in collaboration with cities around the world.
“The Bloomberg Center for Cities combines research, curriculum development, executive education, and student engagement to promote more effective city leadership. The 52 inaugural faculty affiliates embody Harvard’s interdisciplinary spirit, showing how people across the University are coming together to address some of the most important challenges facing cities around the world,” said University Provost Alan M. Garber.
“All across Harvard, faculty are producing research that could significantly benefit city leadership, and the Center is becoming a hub for their work,” said Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf. “We hope that faculty will find new opportunities to advance their scholarship and translate it into real-world policy and impact with support from the Center.”
“These 52 professors are diverse in many ways, but they have a few important things in common: genuine curiosity about what it takes to make cities better, dedication to rigorous research and excellent teaching, and a passion for engaging with the world,” said Bloomberg Center for Cities Director Jorrit de Jong.
Affiliated Faculty of the Bloomberg Center for Cities:
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Daniel Agbiboa, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies
- Bruno Carvalho (FAS/GSD), Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Design; Co-Director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative
- Raj Chetty, William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics; Director of Opportunity Insights
- Ryan Enos, Professor of Government
- Edward Glaeser (FAS/HKS), Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics; Chairman of the Department of Economics
- Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and in African and African American Studies, Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish
Harvard Business School
- Rawi Abdelal, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School; Emma Bloomberg Co-Chair, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
- Ryan Buell, C. D. Spangler Professor of Business Administration
- Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration
- Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management
- John D. Macomber, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
- Karen Mills, Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School
- Jan Rivkin, C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration
- Brian Trelstad, William Henry Bloomberg Senior Lecturer of Business Administration; Faculty Chair of Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
- Mitchell B. Weiss, Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice
Harvard Graduate School of Design
- Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism
- Jeana Dunlap, Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design
- Toni Griffin, Professor in Practice of Urban Planning
- Rachel Meltzer, Plimpton Associate Professor of Planning and Urban Economics
- Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture
Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Monica C. Higgins, Kathleen McCartney Professor of Education Leadership
- Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration; Faculty Director, Doctor of Education Leadership Program
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- David Ricketts, TECH Associate of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard Kennedy School
- Danielle Allen (HKS/FAS), James Bryant Conant University Professor; Director, Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
- Matthew Andrews, Edward S. Mason Senior Lecturer in International Development
- Linda Bilmes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
- Hannah Riley Bowles, Co-Director, Center for Public Leadership; Co-Director, Women and Public Policy Program; Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management
- Arthur Brooks (HKS/HBS), Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public and Nonprofit Leadership
- Cornell William Brooks (HKS/HDS), Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations; Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice
- James Carras, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
- Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Assistant Professor of Public Policy
- Jorrit de Jong, Director, Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University; Faculty Co-Chair, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative; Emma Bloomberg Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School
- Anthony Foxx, Emma Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership
- Archon Fung, Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government
- Marshall Ganz, Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society
- Stephen Goldsmith, Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Data-Smart City Solutions
- Yanilda María González, Assistant Professor of Public Policy
- Ricardo Hausmann, Director, Growth Lab; Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy
- Chris Herbert (HKS/GSD), Managing Director, Joint Center for Housing Studies
- Juliette Kayyem, Robert and Renee Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security
- Matthew Lee, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School
- Jeffrey Liebman, Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government; Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Social Policy
- Elizabeth Linos, Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School; Faculty Director, The People Lab
- Liz McKenna, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Mark Moore, Research Professor of Public Management
- Deval Patrick, Co-Director, Center for Public Leadership; Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership
- Latanya Sweeney (HKS/FAS), Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology
- Robert Wilkinson, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Leadership
Harvard Law School
- Susan Crawford, John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law
Harvard Medical School
- Kimberlyn Leary (HMS/HSPH), Senior Fellow, Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University; Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Gary Adamkiewicz, Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities
- Howard Koh, Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership
